{"id":276,"date":"2012-03-30T15:57:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T22:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=276"},"modified":"2012-03-30T15:57:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T22:57:27","slug":"eneme-a-blogpost-by-eric-bierker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"EneME &#8212; A blogpost by Eric Bierker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Ryan Braught posted a link to this blogpost from Eric Beirker who participates in Veritas Church. <strong>I love it!<\/strong> I found it very inspirational and got permission to share it here. In the beginning of the post, he tells the missional focus of the church during worship. Next, Eric tells a story of how it played-out in his life. Here&#8217;s a short teaser:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;So much of a church service can be pew passivity, this (Veritas&#8217; missional) approach definitely encourages activity. And if not activity, really awkward silence. Really awkward silence&#8230;a shaming silence. I departed yesterday vowing to put my faith into practice more intentionally and no sooner had I thought more about &#8220;how?&#8221; a dude came out and asked for money.<\/p>\n<p>I declined giving him cash but struck up a conversation with the man. I offered to buy him a cup of Lancaster&#8217;s finest coffee at Square One and he accepted the offer. No sooner had we started walking there, he went on good versus bad people verbal jag. . .&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To read the whole story, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/bierkergaard.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/eneme.html\">EneMe|bierkergaard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Ryan Braught posted a link to this blogpost from Eric Beirker who participates in Veritas Church. I love it! I found it very inspirational and got permission to share it here. In the beginning of the post, he tells the missional focus of the church during worship. Next, Eric tells a story of how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}